Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina suggested Thursday that front-runner Donald Trump’s outsized news coverage is the result of one thing — the liberal media’s desire to see Democrat Hillary Clinton take on a weak GOP nominee.

“The media is colluding in this election. It’s terrible,” she said during an appearance on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “I think it’s because the media wants Donald Trump to be our nominee. Because Hillary Clinton will wipe the floor with him, and we will lose the Senate and the House, as well.”

Fiorina said Trump is too erratic to beat Clinton, and fellow insurgent Texas Sen. Ted Cruz lacks executive experience. Everything they and the other candidates want to accomplish is meaningless if Clinton is in the White House come January 2017, she said.

“We have to start with beating Hillary Clinton,” she said. “And we’re not going to beat her with insulting soundbites, and we’re not going to beat her with people who can’t land a punch. And we’re not going to beat her with people who have never made any executive decisions.”

Fiorina lobbed particularly harsh barbs at Trump, arguing he would lose the general election.

“No. 1, because he insults women every day,” she said. “But No. 2, and more substantively, because his positions are too close to Hillary Clinton’s. Listen to him.”

Fiorina enjoyed a mini-boomlet in the polls after a pair of well-regarded debate performances in the summer that put her on the political map nationally. Right now, however, she is sitting at 2.3 percent in the latest RealClearPolitics polling average, compared with Trump’s 33 percent.

Fiorina attributed the disparity entirely to media coverage.

“If I got 22 minutes of uninterrupted time on a national television program listening without a single ad to a rally I was having, I might be at 33 percent, too,” she said.

Fiorina also disputed the conventional wisdom that Cruz is an anti-Establishment outsider. She suggested that as an incumbent senator, he is part of the problem in Washington.

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“Ted Cruz is no anti-Establishment,” she said. “He’s part of the Establishment.”

Fiorina expressed confidence the race would break her way.

“We haven’t started voting yet,” she said. “The last time I looked, it is voters who determine elections, not the media.”